![]() ![]() Many of his sculptures seem to recede into the distance, disappear into the ground or distort the space around them. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor was acclaimed for his explorations of matter and non-matter, specifically evoking the void in both free-standing sculptural works and ambitious installations. Holocaust Memorial, Liberal Jewish Synagogue London, 1996 That seems to fit inside the idea of something being partially there." Such use of pigment characterised his first high-profile exhibit as part of the New Sculpture exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London in 1978. The powder on the floor defines the surface of the floor and the objects appear to be partially submerged, like icebergs. The powder works sat on the floor or projected from the wall. So I decided to give them a generic title, A Thousand Names, implying infinity, a thousand being a symbolic number. He has said of the sculptures "While making the pigment pieces, it occurred to me that they all form themselves out of each other. These early sculptures are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured, using powder pigment to define and permeate the form. Kapoor became known in the 1980s for his geometric or biomorphic sculptures using simple materials such as granite, limestone, marble, pigment and plaster. ![]() He has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. Kapoor went on to teach at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1979 and in 1982 was Artist in Residence at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. There he found a role model in Paul Neagu, an artist who provided a meaning to what he was doing. In 1973, he left for Britain to attend Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design. In Israel, he decided to become an artist. He began to study electrical engineering, but had trouble with mathematics and quit after six months. In 1971 he moved to Israel with one of his two brothers, initially living on a kibbutz. Kapoor attended The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, India. Kapoor is the brother of Ilan Kapoor, a professor at York University, Toronto, Canada. His father was a hydrographer and applied physicist who served in the Indian Navy. At the time, Baghdadi Jews constituted the majority of the Jewish community in Mumbai. His maternal grandfather served as cantor of the synagogue in Pune. Early life and education Īnish Mikhail Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India, to an Iraqi Jewish mother and an Indian Punjabi Hindu father. and the 2017 Genesis Prize for "being one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation and for his many years of advocacy for refugees and displaced people". Kapoor has received several distinctions and prizes, such as the Premio Duemila Prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012, a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace. Īn image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2017, Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards. His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010 Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011 and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design. Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. ![]()
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